Employer · North Carolina

Rutherford County Schools

Forest City, NC · ~53 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.3
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rutherford County Schools runs at 12% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade A.

Rutherford County Schools: 0.3 TCR = 12% of industry BLS 3.0 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rutherford County Schools safety composite

Rutherford County Schools scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 99% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 99% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−1.1

2022→2024

Rutherford County Schools injury rate improved

Rutherford County Schools's TCR fell 1.1 from 1.1 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 1.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=1.1 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Forest City, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.3 · 12% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/214
  • PHOTO SODEXO AT LEVELLAND …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SODEXO AT LEVELLAND ISD (0.0 TCR gap)

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Rutherford County Schools in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Rutherford County Schools averages 0.3 TCR (12% of the industry BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Rutherford County Schools TCR series: 2022=1.1 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.0

Where Rutherford County Schools falls in its industry

6,952 industry establishments

Safer than 99% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 214 industry employers in North Carolina.

Rutherford County Schools (53 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Rutherford County Schools
Rutherford County Schools (53 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Rutherford County Schools has more employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 1.1 0.9 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · NC · Forest City

6,952 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 38 employers in Forest City, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT LEVELLAND ISD 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT WALSH UNIVERSITY 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT UMSL CATERING 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT GSA FDA WHITE OAKS 0.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sanderson Farms St. Pauls Hatchery 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE CPI USA NC LLC - Southport 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Goldsboro Resource Center - PNG 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Master Telecommunications 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Forest City Permanent 473 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1036 415 FTE
CITY-NEAR Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems, LLC 390 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1036 379 FTE
NAT-TCR Janssen RandD Spring House 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Belle Plaine Senior High 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR HPC Industrial Services LLC H14 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sensata Technologies, Inc. Attleboro, MA 0.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE ES Auburn Hills 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sp-Bay Med Ctr 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cleveland Clinic Indian River Medical Ce 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE 7008 - 1-Main 53 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.